How the hell does alcohol 120% works?

[alcal]

Can someone explain me how i can use alcohol 120%?

 

[Speedo]

Put CD/DVD in drive, create image. Save image on PC. Later, mount the image to Alcohol's virtual drive to use the CD/DVD without the physical disk.

If you want more specific answers, you're going to have to ask more specific questions...

 

[alcal]

Put CD/DVD in drive, create image. Save image on PC. Later, mount the image to Alcohol's virtual drive to use the CD/DVD without the physical disk.

If you want more specific answers, you're going to have to ask more specific questions...

Thank you

 

[Bigfoot3814]

Or you could get crunk.

 

[classical_hero]

I thought that you would be dead if you drink something that strong.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

I thought that you would be dead if you drink something that strong.

How would you end up with more alcohol than your container can actually hold?


As for the original question:

To be a bit more specific than Speedo: Alcohol 120% installs a driver on your computer that basically fools it into thinking you have another cd/dvd drive. The drive is a read-only drive though. Then, what it does is it takes a cd image file ( such as an iso, bin or uif file, although there are many more formats) and mounts it on the virtual cd/dvd drive. This fools the computer into thinking there is a cd or dvd in said drive and you end up with access to the cd/dvd.

On a similar topic, said image files can also be opened by some programs. I'm not certain if Alcohol 120% can do that, but I know that PowerISO and MagicISO both can.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

It's very useful when you play a game a lot but dont want to put the CD in every time. Some computers will try to boot from CDs, so you can't leave it in all the time. (Mine does.)

 

[alcal]

I thought that you would be dead if you drink something that strong.

Indeed the name "alcohol 120%" makes confusion

 

[Mirc]

It's very useful when you play a game a lot but dont want to put the CD in every time. Some computers will try to boot from CDs, so you can't leave it in all the time. (Mine does.)

Can't you change that in the BIOS though? Or whatever the "press Del to enter setup" is called nowadays

 

[alcal]

Can't you change that in the BIOS though? Or whatever the "press Del to enter setup" is called nowadays

Nah it's so complex!

 

[Quintillus]

Can't you change that in the BIOS though? Or whatever the "press Del to enter setup" is called nowadays

Yeah, you should be able to. Boot order is one of the most handy BIOS settings to change - my recommendation is to change it to always boot from hard disk first if there's a key you can use to perform a one-time boot order for the rare times you don't want to boot from hard drive.

Exception: When messing around with video BIOS'es.

But Speedo got the original topic covered pretty well in Post 2.

 

[alcal]

Why should we go on BIOS, when we have Alcohol?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Can't you change that in the BIOS though? Or whatever the "press Del to enter setup" is called nowadays

I'm lazy. Plus sometimes I have to use the bathroom while the computer's starting